Chechen/Keyboard

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Existing Resources

We did not find any widely used keyboard layout for Chechen language for any operating system, except several for Android phones. And many virtual online Chechen keyboards are available that allow people to type in Chechen on screen but not on a physical keyboard, like this one.
These keyboard layouts seem to have a standard format. Although the Chechen alphabet is almost exactly the same with the Russian one, except one extra letter, this standard format is completely different from the modern Russian one. Also taking into consideration that most population in Chechen-speaking regions also speak Russian and it would be convenient for people who are familiar with Russian keyboard (which already exist in all operating systems) to get used to the Chechen one, I think it is quite weird not to design based no the Russian variation.
Online Chechen keyboard layout
Modern standard Russian keyboard layout

Keyboard Layouts




ɪ


ə


ʒ


ɥ


ʃ


ʁ


ʔ


æ


ʡ


ø


ʜ


ʰ

       

q


w


e


r


t


y


u


i


o


p


[


]

|
\

        
A
a

S
s

D
d

F
f

G
g

H
h

J
j

K
k

L
l

:
;

"
'
◌̈
◌́
           
Z
z

X
x

C
c
Ç
ç
V
v

B
b

N
n
Ñ
ñ
M
m

<
,

>
.

?
/

¿

(Dead keys are in green)

Justification

https://github.swarthmore.edu/Ling073-sp19/lin073-che-keyboard/README.md

Installation

Steps to install new keyboard layouts to the operating system:

1. If on your own system, first install IBus and the m17n module:

sudo apt-get install ibus-m17n

2. Enable IBus as your default input method:

im-config -n ibus

3. Restart X11 (log out and log back in, or potentially just xfwm4 --replace && xfce4-panel -r &, and you should have a hard-to-see language switcher icon somewhere near the time on your panel. If you don't seen the icon, try adding the notification area to your panel. Right click on the edge of the panel, click "Add new items", and find "notification area".

4. Make a copy of one of the keyboard layout file that you want to install (che-phonetic.mim or che-cyrillic.mim) and put it in ~/.m17n.d/

5. Restart IBus (right click on status bar icon, click "restart")

6. Right click on that icon mentioned in step3 and click preferences. Go to the "Input Method" tab and you can add various keyboard layouts. Note that you have to press the "..." button at the bottom to see all the categories supported and find the new keyboard layout that you just add.

License

Ling073-sp19/lin073-che-keyboard is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0

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Copyright (C) <2019> <Synthia Feng & Arielle Pinto>
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